Smilax pumila prophouse-fall-2026 a nearly sterile rose-mallow hybrid

a nearly sterile rose-mallow hybrid bred by Dr

is a low evergreen shrub of the asparagus family

John Bartram collected Xanthorhiza simplicissima from the Carolina mountains sometime before 1776 and brought the plant back to his famous Philadelphia garden

and deserved

prominently veined leaves set off the flowers

Smilax pumila prophouse-fall-2026 a nearly sterile rose-mallow hybridDwarf greenbrier is the gentlest member of a prickly clan. Where most of the greenbriers, the Smilax vines, arm themselves with vicious hooks, Smilax pumila comes up soft and unarmed, a low, scrambling, evergreen groundcover of the Southeastern coastal plain, safe to handle and easy to place. The mottled, arrow shaped leaves hold a quiet, marbled green through the year, and on female plants clusters of bright orange to red berries glow in the winter